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| Moscow to allow German Army to move through Russia |
| 2003-02-27 |
| Now here's a story that I never thought I'd see. Russia is making a land route through its territory available for use by Germany's armed forces, the Bundeswehr, to resupply peacekeepers in Afghanistan. The announcement was made by Russian President Vladimir Putin during Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's visit to Moscow on Wednesday. Putin described the measure as a first, as Russia has never before allowed a NATO member nation to move troops through its territory. German Army - Russia - winter, must maintain control, flash back ..too strong, must ATTACK!!!.....sorry |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #8 BossMan: Thanks for replying. I was just trying to make sure I understood. |
| Posted by: Dar Steckelberg 2003-02-28 06:53:59 |
| #7 In the words of Basil Fauwlty: "What ever you do manuel,dont mention the war...." |
| Posted by: Frank Martin 2003-02-27 20:05:04 |
| #6 The Wiesel has landed! heh heh, couldn't resist. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2003-02-27 16:55:32 |
| #5 Right now Germany uses the very reliable C160 Transall (German/French production, can carry up to 16 tons or 92 passengers) planes to airlift heavy equipment. These have often been used to bring fast humanitarian aid into desaster areas (floods in Mozambique for example). They will be replaced by the new A400M built by Airbus in the next years that the German Luftwaffe and other European air forces will use. You will be so glad to hear that one of the small panzer brought to Afghanistan are called "Wiesel" |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2003-02-27 16:10:31 |
| #4 The trans-siberian has to switch gauges at the Chinese border crossing. It's done by lifting the wagon off the trucks with a gantry crane, and lowering it onto trucks with the right gauge. Doesn't take that long. Mind you this is for passenger trains, I don't know if it could be done for regular freight. |
| Posted by: RW 2003-02-27 13:12:45 |
| #3 Answered my own question with Worldwide RR Gauge Table. Russia has about 100 klicks of "standard" 4' 8 1/2" gauge and close to 160,000 klicks of 5' "Russian gauge". Those Jerries are gonna have to shuffle some equipment around or use those expensive and heavy multi-gauge wagons. |
| Posted by: Dar Steckelberg 2003-02-27 12:56:52 |
| #2 Does Russia have a different track gauge than Western Europe still? Seems that was one of the things that delayed resupply in WWII--even if the tracks weren't destroyed, they needed to be reset to the standard European 4' 8 1/2" gauge. |
| Posted by: Dar Steckelberg 2003-02-27 12:43:51 |
| #1 Wonder if they're being routed via old Stalingrad? |
| Posted by: Raj 2003-02-27 11:44:21 |